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There’s now glowing water that comes with an Summary NFT and factors hooked up.
Rekt Manufacturers — a crypto startup from the merchants recognized on X as OSF (Ovie Faruq) and RektMando on social media — has launched a brand new drink. It’s a glowing water dubbed Summary Apple.
Like its title suggests, Summary Apple affords rewards for the Ethereum L2 chain Summary. Every case of 24 cans grants the customer Summary XP and 25,000 DRANK factors (Rekt’s rewards factors), plus an Summary NFT. Subsequent week, case consumers can accumulate their Summary NFTs.
Every case prices $69.69 (plus delivery and relevant tax, in fact), and may be purchased utilizing crypto or fiat currencies.
Patrons might buy as much as 250 instances per order, however might place a number of orders.
That’s a LOT of cans.
From Summary group member Raj on X.
Whereas the launch bought out on Wednesday, with over 220,000 cans of glowing water bought, the Rekt group mentioned additional DRANK factors have been being given out by mistake.
“Devs are on it, will get it mounted,” the model mentioned in a publish.
A member of the Summary group confirmed to me that they aren’t concerned on this mission, however they mentioned that future collabs between Rekt and Summary are being explored.
Rekt Manufacturers’ first drink, a lime-flavored glowing water, was introduced in November and equally bought over 220,000 cans inside 48 hours.
Rekt Manufacturers beforehand raised $1.5 million in seeding funding late final yr. Their model was created following the 2022 NFT assortment OSF launched referred to as Rektguy.
Others have tried to convey crypto to the food and drinks trade earlier than, although the efforts to this point have primarily come from holders of Bored Ape Yacht Membership NFTs. There’s Ape Water, for example, which is canned water with a Bored Ape emblazoned throughout it. In 2023, Snoop Dogg launched ice cream impressed by his Bored Ape.
There was additionally a short-lived Bored Ape-themed burger joint, Bored & Hungry, which I visited again in 2022 (meals was good, however the general public there had zero clue what the Apes have been, and didn’t care).
Within the case of Rekt Manufacturers, its limited-edition runs of glowing water that you simply solely hear about on Crypto Twitter don’t appear to be concentrating on the plenty — however broader distribution could also be coming quickly.
Rekt is planning to launch new flavors and produce again older ones, too, in future drops. It might additionally develop past simply glowing water.
“Our aim is to have mainstream distribution and we have now been actively engaged on it over the previous few months. There can be a degree the place folks can get their fingers on Rekt of their native retailer,” OSF informed me in a DM, including: “Perhaps for some that’s ahead of they suppose.”
